DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-93,524

EVRAZ STRATCOR, INC.
HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS

Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 2273, the Department of Labor
herein presents the results of an investigation regarding
certification of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment
assistance.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm
under Section 222(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(e), are
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
(1) the workers' firm is publicly identified by name by
the International Trade Commission as a member of a
domestic industry in an investigation resulting in--
(A) an affirmative determination of serious injury or
threat thereof under section 202(b)(1);
(B) an affirmative determination of market disruption
or threat thereof under section 421(b)(1); or
(C) an affirmative final determination of material
injury or threat thereof under section
705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)(A) and
1673d(b)(1)(A));

(2) the petition is filed during the 1-year period
beginning on the date on which--
(A) a summary of the report submitted to the
President by the International Trade Commission
under section 202(f)(1) with respect to the
affirmative determination described in paragraph
(1)(A) is published in the Federal Register under
section 202(f)(3); or
(B) notice of an affirmative determination described
in subparagraph (B) or (C) of paragraph (1) is
published in the Federal Register; and

(3) the workers have become totally or partially
separated from the workers' firm within--
(A) the 1-year period described in paragraph (2); or
(B) notwithstanding section 223(b), the 1-year
period preceding the 1-year period described in
paragraph (2).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on February 7, 2018 by a state workforce office on behalf
of workers of EVRAZ Stratcor, Inc., Hot Springs, Arkansas
("EVRAZ"). The workers' firm is engaged in activities related
to the production of oxides, specialty vanadium chemicals and
vanadium alloys.
The workers of EVRAZ were certified eligible to apply for
Trade Adjustment Assistance under petition number TA-W-91,312
determined on February 8, 2016. The certification expired on
February 8, 2018.
The investigation revealed that on May 12, 2017, the United
States International Trade Commission found that an industry
in the United States is materially injured by reason of
imports of certain ferrovanadium products from Korea. A
petition has been filed on behalf of workers of EVRAZ. That
firm was publicly identified by name by the International Trade
Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in a category of determination that is
listed in Section 222(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(e). In
addition, that determination was published in the Federal
Register on May 12, 2017, which is within one year of the date
of the petition filed requesting Trade Adjustment Assistance
(TAA) Certification.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of EVRAZ Stratcor, Inc.,
Hot Springs, Arkansas, engaged in activities related to the
production of oxides, specialty vanadium chemicals and vanadium
alloys meet the requirements of Section 222(e) of the Act. In
accordance with Section 223 of the Act, I make the following
certification:









"All workers of EVRAZ Stratcor, Inc., Hot Springs,
Arkansas, who became totally or partially separated from
that employment on or after February 9, 2018, through the
date of the certification and who become totally or
partially separated from that employment from the date of
the certification through May 12, 2018, are eligible to
apply for adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II
of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended."
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 8th day of March 2018.

/s/Hope D. Kinglock
______________________________
HOPE D. KINGLOCK
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance